Greg Benedict

Thoughts on the web and creativity.

Category: development

Installing PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard 10.6

Good news! Whether you are using PostgreSQL for general development, or need a version to match your setup on Heroku, getting PostgreSQL 8.3 installed on Snow Leopard is fairly straight forward. However, you’ll want to make some changes so that it works right for you.

Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion on Mac OS X Leopard

Memory usage is getting higher, and my patience waiting on a browser to load changes is getting much lower these days. Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger Phusion will help with both! Here’s how we’ll do it:

A Full Rails Stack With RM-Install on Ubuntu

Updated: I’ve added info to modify the /etc/profile script to load the path vars for all users. Five Runs has just released an installer for automating the installation process of a full rails stack based on either a development or production environment. Included in the install are: Ruby 1.8.6 Rails 1.2.3 MySQL 5.0 SQLite 3.3 [...]

Using Google Apps Mail With Rails for Great Deliverability

If you have your domain email hosted with Google, it’s easy to get much better delivery rates using thier servers than those on your webserver. Here’s how to do it using Ruby on Rails.

It’s Time to Get Down and Get Dirty.

I’m shifting my focus to talk about what I love. Building scalable web sites using the right technology for the job.